Monthly Archives: July 2012

As an SEO, there’s nothing annoys me more than supposed SEO companies ripping off their clients by building spam links. It’s against Google’s TOS, it’s unethical, it’s black hat and, perhaps worse, it causes problems for the client further down the line – sometimes years down the line after they’ve ended their relationship with the spam company. If a website gets penalised at this stage there’s little they can do about it because the spam SEO company is unlikely to assist by removing the offending links. With Google’s Penguin update, this is an all too common occurrence as well.

Seeing as it annoys me so much (and gives SEO a bad name) I thought I’d help out any webmasters by highlighting one or two (OK, one hundred) websites owned by the same SEO company which are used for nothing more than building spam links. If you have a link from one, many or all of these websites show up in your link profile you may want to get them removed ASAP as your site could very well find itself penalised very soon.

So, in alphabetical order, here are 100 spam websites used by a black hat spam link building company. You’ll start to recognise a theme as you scan the URLs, as they all look pretty much the same, feature much the same content, are all hosted on the same hosting provider and all link to each other.

This weekend I finally managed to take off on the taster flying lesson I’d been given in February. Despite booking the flight three times, it had always been cancelled as a result of bad weather (raining, Liverpool, who’d have guessed) and I’d had to rebook it.

This weekend the weather was good and I finally piloted a plane for the first time from Liverpool airport with Merseyflight Flying School.

One requirement for flying the two seater aircraft was that I weighed under 16 stone (which I now do, but didn’t when the flight was booked) and I can see why that’s so important as the plane itself is paper light. The instructor pushed the plane, one handed, onto the runway before we boarded. It was that damn light!

Anyhow, after squeezing into the cockpit, and positing my legs so they weren’t hindering the wheel, we set off for a quick flyby of Liverpool, where we soared over Anfield, Goodison Park and even saw Blackpool in the distance – which I was informed would take about 20 minutes to reach. The experience was excellent, and I picked up my logbook which details the 30 minute flight – counting it towards one of my main goals in life, attaining a pilot’s licence!

I am definitely going again and recommend it to anyone. The whole flight was also recorded on camera, and I should be getting the footage on DVD in the next few days. I’ll add that to YouTube and get it on here as soon as I have it.